[New-Poetry] What's Up

[Skip Fox]

"Temps fidgets." Right!  And drives a big black car with no muffler.
(Freakin' fast.)

 

Your "world" sounds like  the world of Welty's "Why I Live at the P.O.," the
Katzenjammer Kids, or Grandma Moses. Good luck to "keeping it up" under such
circumstances.

 

(Informational: Down here the "Sky Is Gray," since Ernest Gaines taught her
for 25 years. . . . I was wondering, in fact, if he titled that in response
to Crane's "The Open Boat," a story of how nothing beyond science can be
"known," whereas Gaines seems to say that there are things we can and should
know: dignity, equality, human suffering and grace, etc.) 

 

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Subject: [New-Poetry] What's Up

 

What's Up

 

Duddy wakes up from a nap and takes things seriously

for a change. Luther's mad as hell cuz he can't change

Jews into Christ-huggers. Junior's out chugalugging

 

Gatorade laced with vodka. Mom's in the kitchen

roastin' taters. Uncle Joe's up on the roof, banging

his head on the skylight. The dog's asleep on the bath-

 

room floor. Auntie Vanessa's putting on her face again.

Wherever we go we is with us. Nobody knows the color

of sky. The trouble I've seen. Uncle Moses has taken

 

to parting his hair in the middle nowadays. No one to

blame but himself. Melanie's sister's hung out to dry.

It's the best of times, the worst of times. Tempus fidgets.

 

 

 

Hal

 

Halvard Johnson

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